Helix subprofuga var. turriculata Bellini, 1915: 170

Fasulo, Giuseppe, Duraccio, Sergio, Federico, Antonio & Crocetta, Fabio, 2019, The (almost) unknown Italian naturalist Raffaello Bellini (1874 - 1930): biography malacological publications, and status of his recent molluscan taxa, Zootaxa 4668 (3), pp. 343-369 : 361

Helix subprofuga var. turriculata Bellini, 1915: 170

Type locality: Scala d’Anacapri ( Capri Island , Naples, Tyrrhenian Sea, Italy) .

Original description: “forma a spira elevata” [form with an elevated spire].

Material examined: seventeen shells labelled by Bellini “ H. (Xerophila) subprofuga Stabile var. turriculata Bellini—Isola di Capri ” (MCCIC—drawer 19, n. 297a) ( Fig. 7C, D ); four glued shells labelled “Dono Bellini” [Donated by Bellini] and “ Helix (Heliomanes) subprofuga Sta. —(Xerophila)—Capri” and labelled by Bellini “ Helix subprofuga, Stabile—Capri ” (MZF2—Z6969); eighteen shells labelled by Bellini “ H. (Xerophila) subprofuga , Sta-bile—juv.—Capri” (MCCIC—drawer 19, n. 297b). All these shells belong to the Cernuella cisalpina (Rossmässler, 1837) species complex.

Remarks: having been instituted on the basis of insignificant morphological characteristics, we rank it infrasubspecific, and thus not available ( ICZN 2012: Art. 10.2, 45 .5, 45.6, glossary). Alzona (1971) listed “ turriculata Bellini 1915 ” as a synonym of Helicella (Cernuella) subprofuga (Stabile, 1864) , now Cernuella cisalpina (Rossmässler, 1837) . Helix subprofuga var. turriculata Bellini, 1915 would be also preoccupied by Helix turriculata Cox, 1868 . Manganelli & Giusti (1988) considered this taxon as belonging to the “small Cernuella group”, with an uncertain identity. Specimens ascribed to C. cisalpina were found again in Capri Island during recent field studies ( Petraccioli et al. 2005, 2006).

Figures

FIGURE 7. A, B. Helix bellinii. A. Shells from Catania (11.6×16.2 mm, 11.5×14.9 mm). B. Original labels handwritten by Monterosato. MCZR-M-1286. C, D. Helix (Xerophila) subprofuga var. turriculata. C. Material from Capri Island (Naples) (3–6×5–9 mm). D. Original label handwritten by Bellini. MCCIC—drawer 19, n. 297a.